Some thirty years later the ill-famed phlogiston theory of combustion was born, and spread like an epidemic throughout the scientific world, causing the seeking for truth to be diverted from its proper course that had been opened by Mayow's discovery, which had, if one may use a somewhat dubious expression, been made before its time and had received little attention.
It is clear that Mayow's igneo-aerial particles correspond with oxygen, which had not yet been discovered. He inferred that the significance and function of respiration was to bring these particles into the body, and so make combustion therein possible. The first were written by John Mayow in 1670, then less than 30 years of age, whose observations on the power of saltpetre to set fire to organic substances led him to the view that certain igneo-aer al particles existed in saltpetre, in the air, and also in organic substances. The life work of many savants finds a place in the volume of which Otto Warburg has written - for the time being - the last pages. Many famous names and many discoveries have been associated with research on this vital process, while, before natural philosophical thought was limited by the demands of accurate measurement, it was a fertile field for speculation. It is by this process that the energy required for other vital processes is made available to the cells in a form capable of immediate utilization. The discovery for which the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is to be awarded today concerns intracellular combustion: that fundamental vital process by which substances directly supplied to cells or stored in them are broken down into simpler components while using up oxygen. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Hammarsten, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Royal Caroline Institute The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 Prof, Warburg, a doctor of both chemistry and medicine, remained in Berlin throughout the Nazi regime, escaping the more truculent measures of persecution because of hs half-Jewish descent.Here is the orginal conection between Cancer and Oxygen, that is poo pood by the mainstream as it runs amok to their agenda. Goldblatt, a distinguished pathologist born at Muscatine, Iowa, in 1891, is on the staff of the Institute for Medical Research at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. His findings, he believes, show the way toward future prevention of the disease.įinal proof of his thesis was furnished recently, he indicates, when American researchers Harry Goldblatt and Gladys Cameron, the latter a biologist connected with New York University, were able to induce tumors artificially by impairing the “breathing” of healthy cells. It sets in when a cell does not absorb enough oxygen, so that its normal “breathing” is chronically impaired. In 1948-49 he carried out researches in the United States.Īccording to the famed biochemist and physiologist, who has studied the processes of living cells for more than three decades and is considered the world’s foremost authority on the subject, cancer does not develop through outside causative agents such as viruses. For a quarter century he has directed the Institute for Cell Physiology in the Dahlem section of Berlin, formerly known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg, 71, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1931, reports in a German scientific journal today that he has solved the bitterly-disputed question as to the origin of cancer.